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Environment Agency Requirements Working Group
Database for Best Practice in Waste Minimisation
Environment Agency Requirements Working Group
Presented by Bob Morley
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Content
The Requirement & EARWG
The Waste Minimisation Database
Summary
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Information & Improvement Requirement
“The Operator shall provide the Agency with a detailed report of a review of national and international developments in best practice for minimising all waste disposals together with a strategy for achieving a continuing reduction in discharges.”
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Information & Improvement Requirement
“The Operator shall provide the Agency with a detailed report of a review of national and international developments in best practice for minimising all waste disposals together with a strategy for achieving a continuing reduction in discharges.”
-- can be thought of as three stages: the review; the resulting conclusions & recommendations; a strategy for implementation.
The database is for the first stage only.
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Comments on I&IR
Same for all Operators
Requires the same (or heavily overlapping) review(s) of national & international developments
Hence the formation of the ‘Environment Agency Requirements Working Group - EARWG - and the decision to co-operate in construction of a database for waste minimisation techniques
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EARWG Membership AWE Sellafield Ltd British Energy LLW Repository Ltd DML GE Healthcare Magnox Electric Rolls Royce UKAEA Rosyth Springfields Fuels
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Waste Minimisation Database (1)
Resource to help each participating operator to respond to the I&IR, but also a ‘best practice’ tool
Maintained, so always up-to-date for operators
Information gleaned from: UK operators; published literature; conference proceedings; international sources
Data entered only after facts independently verified by acknowledged expert
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Waste Minimisation Database (2)
Substantial piece of work
Operators benefit from cost-sharing while also drawing on a wider range of expertise than would be available to a single site
Now available via the Internet
www.rwbestpractice.co.uk
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Waste Minimisation Database (3)
Over 120 hours spent reviewing national and international information sources (I.e. conference proceedings, manufacturing standards, operator technical reports etc)
~120 datasheets produced regarding techniques that minimised the activity and/or volume of radioactive waste
Datasheets independently peer reviewed by national and international nuclear experts and national non-nuclear experts
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Database Purpose Operator resource ‘Pick list’ of information, only some of which
is relevant to particular sites with particular wastes
Tool to underpin the quality of information provided in the final I&IR report
Helps with ‘review’, but does not provide recommendations or strategies
‘Best Practice’ tool for use at any stage of the authorisation cycle
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Webpage Login Screen Shot
Access controlled: Passwords
reviewed biannually and a register held
by the EARWG
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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5
Waste Type Technological area
Operation Operation specifics (1)
Operation specifics (2)
Other Technologies
Liquid Releases
Ion Exchange Beds
Organic Phenolic
Acrylic
Inorganic
Zeolites
Titanites
Hexacyanoferrates
Composite
Tiered approach to categorising waste minimisation technologies. Tier 1 based upon waste type media (solid, liquid, airborne)
Database Structure
Expanding depth of information
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Database Content – Liquid Waste
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Database Content – Solid Waste
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Database Content – Airborne Waste
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Waste Minimisation Technique Search
Three ways of searching
Hierarchical search Keyword search Datasheet search
Output
Datasheet (Screen View) Report (Print View)
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Hierarchical Search
Tier 1 folder
Tier 2 folder
Tier 3 foldersTier 4 folders
User can open the tier folders to get to the desired
technique datasheet.
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Open Datasheet
Option to view the datasheet
(screen view)
Option to view the datasheet report
(print view)
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Example of Datasheet - Ion Exchange
Author and date produced
Categories of information
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Example of Datasheet - Ion Exchange (cont.)
Hyperlink to independent experts’ CV
Date datasheet was approved
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Datasheet Report (Print View)
Datasheet examples to be distributed for
your information only
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Keyword SearchInput Search for
keywords in datasheet title
Search for keywords in
datasheet textOutput
Hyperlink leads to the datasheet
Leads to print view of all identified
datasheets
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Datasheet Search
Report output options
Datasheets listed in
alphabetical order
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Report Output
Datasheet examples to be distributed for your information only
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Industry Use of Techniques
National review of industry use of waste minimisation techniques to enable users to determine where each waste
minimisation technique is/has been employed across the industry
to facilitate the sharing of specific information on the application of the technique
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Industry Use of Ion Exchange Sheet shows the
EARWG members who use the technique
The detailed application statements to state how the technique is/was used, what for, where and when.
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Summary Operators (via EARWG) share information
on waste minimisation A database of peer-reviewed information has
been created and is kept up-to-date Facts from the database inform each
operator in responses to the common I&IR The database itself is not the answer to the
I&IR - it merely informs the review Use of the database is not limited to I&IR
responses
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